Our holiday in Sicily was a bit of a curate’s egg…

A curate’s egg? Some parts of it were good, some bits less so… As you will know from the last post, we lost a whole week, due to Etna eruptions, all very sad. We ended…

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An unexpected week at home for Hastings Battleaxe

Surely that’s not Sicily, it’s Pett Level – and on a dull, grey, day? Sadly, you are right. We ended up back here for another week. My worst fears about Mount Etna were realised. The…

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Hastings Battleaxe goes to Portugal and Spain…

Yes, the familiar routine of a flight to Faro, and a few days with my daughter and family in their rural Portugese village, Sao Marcos da Serra. Have written about it so many times before……

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Hastings Battleaxe sampled Crete

Battleaxe says ‘sampled’ advisedly, because we only saw a tiny fraction of the island. We spent most of our time chilling at the luxurious Elounda Bay Palace Hotel, with just one day out to visit…

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Hastings Battleaxe goes to Portugal

It has become an annual routine – a night in Faro, then up to rural Sao Marcos da Serra to spend a few nights with daughter Clara, her husband Steve and grand-daughter Eve, then, this…

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